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I have no doubt that such people exist, but they can't be that common, right? And to the extent they do exist, wouldn't their symptoms have generally been extre
by asdfasgasdgasdg 5y ago
I have no doubt that such people exist, but they can't be that common, right? And to the extent they do exist, wouldn't their symptoms have generally been extremely mild? So you would expect most such individuals to not believe they've had COVID and to not have long-COVID, and therefore not to confound the results of this study.
- hprotagonist 5y ago8.5 billion times a small percentage is still a pretty big number.
- asdfasgasdgasdg 5y agoI'm not understanding the relevance. We are talking about the proportions of folks that fall into various buckets. The absolute values don't enter into this conversation.
- refurb 5y agoIn addition, it’s the immune response that likely leads to Covid organ damage so if an infection is interrupted so early as to not initiate an antibody response you’d expect any long covid effects to non-existent.
- jhugo 5y agoI know quite a few people who believe that you can have long COVID without any initial symptoms, so it seems reasonable that there may be some people who got mild symptoms, believed it was COVID, and then have some ongoing symptoms that they attribute to that.